UW Extension Specialist Receives Career Achievement Award

October 29, 2012 — A professor in the University of Wyoming Department of
Family and Consumer Sciences and director of Wyoming AgrAbility has received the
Career Achievement Award from the National Family Life Specialists' Awards
Committee.

“I was extremely honored and humbled,” says Randy Weigel, UW
Extension human development specialist in the College of Agriculture and
Natural Resources. “In my 37-year extension career, I’ve had the privilege of
working with most of the past recipients.”

The Career
Achievement Award honors an extension state specialist in family life and human
development who has made significant contributions with impacts at the national
level on extension program development, delivery and evaluation.

Weigel will be honored at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, during
the National Update and Family Life Specialists’ Awards Presentation webinar
hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and National Institute of Food and
Agriculture.

“Throughout his two decades of service, he has made
significant contributions in developing, teaching and evaluating extension
programs,” says Brian Higginbotham, family life extension specialist at Utah
State University. “His contributions, including presentations and publications,
have had multiple impacts outside his home state.”

“I am proud of the proactive, integrated and comprehensive
response of extension human development and family life specialists to the
emotional needs of farm families facing the farm crisis of the ’80s, and the
inclusion of behavioral (mental) health into extension agricultural management
education and the National AgrAbility project,” Weigel says.

Photo:Randy Weigel received the Career Achievement Award from the
National Family Life Specialists' Awards Committee.